TIRANA, August 17 – The head of the prosecution authority for serious crimes (SPAK), Arben Kraja, and a group of investigators from the National Bureau of Investigation (BKH), led by the head of this institution, Aida Hajnaj, visited Washington D.C. last week.
They met with officials from the Justice Department and the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Maryland Center for Coordination and Analysis, and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), a statement released by the US embassy in Tirana said on Wednesday.
The commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Office of Public Integrity (formerly the FBI’s public corruption and organized crime investigator) from the Baltimore Police Department welcomed them. Albanian prosecutors and investigators also met with a Justice Department executive who has led high-level public corruption investigations and prosecutions as a federal prosecutor.
The group is at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, training and sharing experiences with agents and experts from the world’s largest law enforcement agency during these days. A second group of investigators will follow the same program next week. This month’s visits started on August 3, with executive level meetings between the inter-institutional agencies of the United States and the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the BKH in SPAK.
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